Euro 2012 tickets on sale for just £14 as England fans avoid Ukraine

Tickets for England games in the European Championships are being sold for as little as £14 as football fans stay away from the tournament.

The England team take part during the official training in the eve of the Euros 2012 (Picture: AP)

Seats are on offer at little more than a third of their face values with supporters put off by the high cost of travel and accommodation, as well as reports of racial tensions and political unrest in co-host Ukraine.

A £40 ticket for England’s final group stage match against Ukraine on June 19 can be bought for £14.

For the team’s opening game against France tonight, tickets with a face value of £70 are on offer for just £25.

Edward Parkinson, from online ticket exchange Viagogo, said: ‘On the face of it, this is not quite turning out to be the event that the championship organisers had hoped for.

‘The buoyancy of ticket demand just doesn’t match up to what we have seen in previous tournaments, with ticket prices taking a nose dive.’

The Euros will see the poorest attendance by England fans at any major championship for years, with just 4,000 of our allocation of 9,000 tickets taken up. There will be more Russians in the stadium for the Ukraine game than England supporters.

By contrast, up to 30,000 Irish fans are in co-host country Poland and £40 tickets for their game against Spain are selling for £300.

The Football Fans Federation blamed the recession but added: ‘We also warned prior to the tournament that overcharging by hotels would put people off and that would appear to be what has happened.’